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The Beaver Hills Country

A History of Land and Life

Athabasca University Press

This book explores a relatively small, but interesting and anomalous, region of Alberta between the North Saskatchewan and the Battle Rivers.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Thinking Planning and Urbanism

UBC Press

By exposing the details of the Dundas Square area in Toronto, this book shows how city planners can be overwhelmed by the machinations of money and power, and why the planning field is ill-equipped to find creative solutions for post-industrial problems.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Home Is the Hunter

The James Bay Cree and Their Land

UBC Press

The James Bay Cree lived in relative isolation until 1970, when Northern Quebec was swept up in the political and cultural changes of the Quiet Revolution. Home Is the Hunter presents the historical, environmental, and cultural context from which this recent story grows.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Becoming British Columbia

A Population History

UBC Press

Becoming British Columbia investigates critical moments in the demographic record of British Columbia, including catastrophic epidemics, immigrant rushes, forced migrations, the fertility transition, and the baby boom, in an accessible yet scholarly and provocative way.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Green Building Trends

Europe

Island Press
  • Copyright year: 2009
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Megaregions

Planning for Global Competitiveness

Island Press
  • Copyright year: 2009
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Suburb, Slum, Urban Village

Transformations in Toronto’s Parkdale Neighbourhood, 1875-2002

UBC Press

A history of Toronto’s Parkdale neighbourhood, spanning three eras of suburban and urban development and examining the controversial planning practices that shaped it.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Resilient Cities

Responding to Peak Oil and Climate Change

Island Press
  • Copyright year: 2009
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Expansive Discourses

Urban Sprawl in Calgary, 1945–1978

Athabasca University Press

A groundbreaking study of how and why the interactions between local government and land developers in Calgary after the Second World War created a city that exemplifies urban sprawl.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Urban Transformation

Understanding City Form and Design

Island Press
  • Copyright year: 2008
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Creating Vibrant Public Spaces

Streetscape Design in Commercial and Historic Districts

Island Press
  • Copyright year: 2008
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Quebec

A Historical Geography

UBC Press
  • Copyright year: 2008
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The Reluctant Land

Society, Space, and Environment in Canada before Confederation

UBC Press
  • Copyright year: 2008
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Cities as Sustainable Ecosystems

Principles and Practices

Island Press
  • Copyright year: 2008
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Creating a Modern Countryside

Liberalism and Land Resettlement in British Columbia

UBC Press
  • Copyright year: 2007
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The Option of Urbanism

Investing in a New American Dream

Island Press

Shows how the American Dream is shifting to include cities as well as suburbs and how the financial and real estate communities need to respond to build communities that are more environmentally, socially, and financially sustainable.

  • Copyright year: 2007
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Rehabilitating the Old City of Beijing

A Project in the Ju'er Hutong Neighbourhood

UBC Press

Wu Liangyong offers a new direction for the planning and development of China's capital.

  • Copyright year: 1999
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The Archive of Place

Unearthing the Pasts of the Chilcotin Plateau

UBC Press

Weaves together a series of narratives about environmental history in British Columbia’s Chilcotin Plateau.

  • Copyright year: 2007
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River of Memory

The Everlasting Columbia

UBC Press

River of Memory fosters connections between the river’s natural and human histories by encouraging readers to linger along the river’s shores and spend time reflecting on its dramatic mountain and plateau landscapes.

  • Copyright year: 2005
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